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Rating: 4/5PS4 Drive Replacement

Purchased this for a PS4 drive replacement. I was getting low on space and after some research this drive showed up as a recommended swap.

Overall I'm happy with the performance. Games where you die a lot and have long loading times between deaths (*cough, Bloodborne) are much less frustrating to play now. Boot up time and apps like Netflix or Spotify load faster etc.

The time it took to backup my original 500GB drive and restore to the new Seagate was a real pain. Takes a good day to get this done. Of course this is not fault of the drive but I wasn't about to lose PT ;D

Other Thoughts: I understand Sony will be releasing an updated PS4 model with a 1TB drive but for anyone who owns the original PS4 this hybrid drive swap will make using your old PS4 much better.

Rating: 1/5Don't buy for a Toshiba laptop

Cons: Not compatible with the Toshiba laptop, I updated the BIOS on the Toshiba but still won't boot up Windows 8.1, Not recognise the SSD at all

Other Thoughts: A total waste of time and money for me

Manufacturer Response:

Dear William L.,

We apologize for the problems experienced with your Laptop SSHD drive, as this is not typical or expected. We would like to talk with you by phone to determine the root cause and available resolution to the problem. A support case (#04936149) has been created that will reference your review and our response. Our support contact number in the US/Canada is 800-732-4283. If outside of this region, or for additional support options, please try us here under Product Support (choose your region):

Rating: 5/5Does its job well

Pros: Awesome hard drive. I replaced my old 5400 laptop hard drive with this one when I was only getting 20 mb/s with my usb 3.0 flash drive, with this one it was doing 75-85 mb/s. It also boots my laptop up in less than 30 seconds. Awesome performance for the price, I got mine on sale for like $80.

Cons: Nothing really, it felt a little warm when I went to take it out after gaming for a bit but that could be because of my laptop cpu fan isn't working well anymore.

Other Thoughts: The only issues I really have with this drive is that its a 5400 hard drive and that's just the nature of the beast with this drive. I also have it plugged into a 3 gb/s slot since my laptop doesn't have a 6 gb/s slot so the performance i get out of it is less than it really is but it does pretty well still.

Rating: 3/5Bummer for me

Cons: I would discourage you from buying this drive. I may have a lemon, but the performance is miserable to worse. It doesn't even keep up with standard Seagate drives I got three-four years ago.

Other Thoughts: Look to the real SSD's; 500Gb available now for less than $200, on sale. You will be a great deal happier.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Eric,

We would like to note that it may take a number of reboots to notice the full performance benefit of your Desktop Solid State Hybrid drive. This will allow the adaptive memory feature to determine the data that is accessed most frequently and put this data on the high performing SSD portion of the drive.

It is also important to disable your Windows defrag utility for this drive.

If these suggestions do not help, or you have additional questions or concerns, please contact our support staff and we will be happy to assist further:

Rating: 5/5Hybrid Field of Dreams

Pros: Hard disk is noticeable faster than regular hard disks. Installed Win 8.1 and the combination is one really fast boot up time. This type of disk is a great solution for those who do not want to go for a full SSD but want to have the best of both worlds.

Cons: None. See Other Thoughts.

Other Thoughts: I stopped using Seagate hard disks because I had such a high rate of failures in the past. So I would say that I might be concerned a bit about the brand. We'll see what happens.

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5/17/2015 12:22:25 PM

Tech Level: 5/5

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Rating: 5/5

Pros: So far so good. Replacing a wd 750gb 7200rpm on a Toshiba satellite t135 s1310. Wanted to try ssd but with a large capacity and without the higher cost. Boot and shutdown speeds are noticeably faster though not as fast as I expected (40 seconds from off to logon). Some programs also start noticeably faster. Price was fair and I'm happy so far.

Cons: The Seagate drive software (not included) would begin the come process but on rebooting to actually start, it wouldn't. But using my aomei partitioning software, cloning went off without a hitch.

Rating: 4/5Good for the PS4

Other Thoughts: I think this drive worked really well, My family and I use our ps4 for everything from watching movies and Crunchyroll to playing games (which is my primary use heh heh). I bought this drive for the PS4 when it first released and replaced it on day 1. It worked awesome up until recently. The dashboard would stutter as it loaded info from the drive, game load times were horrendous but once they loaded the game would run fine. Errors in the PS4 logs pointed to what looked like the hard drive dying.

The drive worked long and well enough for me to pick up a new one to replace the one in my ps4. I swapped out the drive, and my ps4 is, once again, a happy camper :)

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Anonymous,

We apologize for the problems experienced with your Laptop SSHD. We would like to talk with you by phone to determine the root cause and available resolution to the problem. A support case (#04842813) has been created that will reference your review and our response. If from the US or Canada, our contact number for support is 800-732-4283. If outside of this region, or for additional support options, please try us here under Product Support (choose your region):

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